{"id":11749,"date":"2024-12-10T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:29:17","slug":"missouri-western-musics-jenkins-receives-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/10\/missouri-western-musics-jenkins-receives-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western Music\u2019s Jenkins receives national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/Jenkins_Photograph-scaled-e1720027525117-600x596-1-310x308.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Derek Jenkins\" width=\"310\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/Jenkins_Photograph-scaled-e1720027525117-600x596-1-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/Jenkins_Photograph-scaled-e1720027525117-600x596-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/Jenkins_Photograph-scaled-e1720027525117-600x596-1-200x199.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/Jenkins_Photograph-scaled-e1720027525117-600x596-1-310x308.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/Jenkins_Photograph-scaled-e1720027525117-600x596-1-400x397.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/12\/Jenkins_Photograph-scaled-e1720027525117-600x596-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/>Dec. 10, 2024&#8211;Dr. Derek Jenkins, associate professor of music composition and theory at Missouri Western State University, received the Marian Anderson Award in Social Justice from The American Prize for his composed piece &#8220;Dreams of America&#8221; for brass band and still images.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Jenkins is a composer whose music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and Brazil by the Cheyenne and Dubuque Symphony Orchestras; Fountain City Brass Band; Dresdner Bl\u00e4serphilharmonie; Czech National Concert Band; Banda Sinf\u00f4nica Municipal de Hortol\u00e2ndia; Seattle Wind Symphony; U.S. Army Materiel Command Band; Youth Symphony of Kansas City; Mid America Freedom Band; the Carinthia, Joseph Wytko, and Saxophilia Saxophone Quartets; Ensemble for These Times; Songeaters; as well as individual artists, university bands, honor bands and honor orchestras around the country. Jenkins holds degrees from UMKC and Rice University. More information can be found at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.derek\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">derek jenkins.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation&#8217;s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college and university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 10, 2024&#8211;Dr. Derek Jenkins, associate professor of music composition and theory at Missouri Western State University, received the Marian Anderson Award in Social Justice from The American Prize for his composed piece &#8220;Dreams of America&#8221; for brass band and still images.\u00a0 Dr. Jenkins is a composer whose music has been performed throughout the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":11750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11751,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions\/11751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}